Beautiful Sunset

What I missed the most in Moorea was the time where Tommy and I could hang out and watch the sunset. I love watching the beautiful sunset by the lookout. It had an unobstructed view.

I decided to use a orange cardstock as background. Do you recall my Le Matiehani page? I used the same glitter pattern paper for this project. I bought extra at the scrapbook store in case I mess up, I still have an extra cardstock for me to work on. I managed to not make a mistake on my other layout. I was able to save the extra cardstock for another project. This layout was totally calling for it.


Instead of wasting such beautiful paper, I cut out four strips of 1x12. I used runner tape and adhered to each side of the orange cardstock.

I used my digital cutter to cut out 4 photo corners. Instead of using all 4 for one picture, I decided to use 2 corners for each of the picture for the project. I looked through my quote stack to see if there was anything I could use. I found "What a view..." in the stack. It was perfect! The color matched with the project coincidentally. I created a frame for the vellum quote as the vellum was orange. If I were to stick it over the orange cardstock, the quote would not stand out.

I also found a matching flower in my flower collection and decided to use it. It seem to go well together.


I also used my digital cutter to cut out the font. I used the Xyron X to create the sticker for the letters so I could easily adhere the letters onto the page. For the 4 photo corners, I also ran them into the Xyron X, 2 times. The first time I ran them through, I added fine white glitters on them. After dusting all the excess, I ran it through to get the other side sticky to adhere to the cardstock.

I like this page alot. It looks very simple, but pretty at the same time. I loved how I made use of the glitters on the photo corners. It gave a little bit of a sparkle, like how the water sparkled when the sun is hitting the water.

Unexpected Michael's Shopping Trip

I really don't remember the last time I went into a craft store, I walked out without spending a penny. I am always buying new embellishments, but there's still so many at home, waiting to be used. Some day, I may have to get a public storage to put them in. I hate to say, but I think I am a hoarder! :(

Ever since my brother moved out of my parent's house, I have been taking over his room. First, I took his closet to put my clothes in. Then, I slowly took over his desk by packing up all his old belongings that were sitting on his desks. I have been wanting to do a makeover for this room. However, I don't really want to do it because it is my parent's house. I will eventually move out and I hope that my hunnie will be nice enough to give me a craft room. Well, that will be years to come from now.

Anyway, I didn't get much at Michael's this time. I was very careful on my spending as I just returned from my trip. I am not looking forward to get my credit card statement at all! I purchased the gem flourishes. They really come in handy and they really fancy my pages up! I bought the pressed flowers. I am not sure what I am going to be doing with them yet. I bought more ribbons! I love ribbons. I have a box full of ribbons. I should look into my ribbon box and see what I have soon!

Hope you are all having a great day! It's midweek, 2 more work days, and we can all relax on the weekend! :)

Pool

I love the pool at the resort. If the sky is the limit, and money is not an issue, I totally love to have a similar version in my own backyard! For now, I will continue to dream about my dream house and pool.

With the underwater case, we were able to take some cool videos and pictures in the water. I used some underwater pictures for some of my scrapbook pages. Stay tune for my blog! I am also writing in my travel blog, about my travel experiences, things that caught my eyes on the trip.

For this single layout, I used a light blue cardstock as my background. I used a blue ink chalk to chalk all four sides of the cardstock. I picked 2 pattern papers to compliment the colors for my layout. I kept it simple. I also used ink chalk to chalk all sides of each strip.

I overlapped part of the 2 strips of pattern papers. I resized and arranged all the pictures. I added 2 flowers and secured with a brad.

I used my digital cutter and cut out a corner flourish and the letters. I adhered the corner flourish with the runner tape. I used the Xyron X to create the sticker for the letters.

I used a white pen and wrote out the different types of activities we did by the pool side. Instead of writing a journal, I decided to use short phrases, single word adjectives and verbs instead. I had no other place to write them, other than along the side of the flourish. From far away, it looked like I was adding an additional color to the flourish design. When you look closely, it was actually words.

I enjoyed working this page. It was something different. It was my first time writing a different style of journaling. It was a bit of a challenge for me because I like to write alot of details. With such little space, I had to be straight to the point. I usually write very small, I was able to squeeze everything I wanted to write in there.

Kayaking

The resort has kayaks for guests to kayak out. We didn't go too far though. We kayaked out, outside of the overwater bungalows. The water got pretty deep once we were out there. I enjoyed watching the sunset on the kayak. I was pretty scared kayaking as I didn't know how to swim. Thank goodness that there was no waves. Although I had the life jacket on, I wouldn't know what would happen to me.

I decided to do something different to this page. I decided to test out my new circle cutter. I decided to use blue cardstock as the background. I found a water pattern paper in my stash. I used the curvy cutter to cut out a circle.

I also use the curvy cutter to cut out some pictures in circles. I used the silhouette digital cutter to cut out the fonts. I used a light blue chalk to add a little color on the font. I added gem stones on the letters.

This is not my favorite page. I am not really used to designing my layouts with circles. I had a difficult time putting this page together.

If I could redo this page, I probably would redo this page completely. I would change the font and would put the pictures in different ways other than putting them in a corner.

Shopping @ Daiso in Richmond

The joy of shopping, although I have to pay 12% tax, it is totally worth it! Tommy's brother's girlfriend lives in Vancouver. She took some time to hang out with us and took us to Richmond to do some shopping. Who knew that I would find crafts at Daiso!

Daiso is like almost like a dollar store. Each item purchased above cost CAD $2. It was a guilt-free shopping experience for me! I bought some lace borders/ribbons. I decided to pick the beige/ white color ones as I plan to use glimmer mist to add color to them for my projects. The Japanese buttons were just too cute to pass up on! I am sure I will make use of them, eventually!

One thing I learned about this shopping trip is that I don't have to go to a craft store to find the materials to create my projects. We can create just about anything with any materials and let our creativity flow.

Joann's Online Shopping

I went a bit crazy on paper shopping before going on my Vancouver-Seattle-Portland vacation. I bought them from Joann.com and the package was delivered to my house the day before we left for Canada. I was so busy packing that I wasn't able to open my package to look through my paper stacks!

Now that I am back, I finally got a chance to open my package and look through my paper stacks. I bought four DCWV stacks and two Core'dinations stacks. I liked the quality DCWV. I have alot of cardstock stacks from them. As for the Core'dinations stacks, this is my first time purchasing this brand. I had seen them at my local scrapbook stores, but never gotten a chance to buy them. Since they were on sale online, I decided to buy them to try them out. The cool thing about the Core'dinations stacks is that we can do so much to the paper. I can sand it, tear it, emboss it to bring out the inner color (Chocolate box stack). I am looking forward to use these papers soon.

I bought the Cafe Mediterranean Premium Stack and Cardstock Stack. I love the color of the papers! The cardstock stack has some different shades of green, yellow and blue. There are some metallic and glitter cardstocks in that stack as well! The premium stack has gloss finishing on some of the pattern cardstocks. The 2 stacks totally complimented each other well! I already started using them for my scrapbook project!

The Royal Garden stack has some very bold color, colors that I don't normally use for my scrapbook pages. Some of the papers came with foil as decoration. It is a pretty stack. This stack has a glossy finish, unlike the other stacks I normally buy. I am sure I will make use of this stack some day.

As for the Tradewinds Stack, it also has gold foil as decoration for some of the cardstocks. I feel this stack is perfect for the travel pages that I am working on. It has some printed maps on the cardstocks too!